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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, that may have some impact on prices. That may impact the cost parents are feeling.
- I'm on a planning board and the word impact... I not to correlate with impact fees. >> Yeah.
- </c> >> I not to correlate with impact fees. >> I not to correlate with impact fees.
- </c><01:54:24.159><c> And</c> and impact to the environment. And and impact to the environment.
- </c> inflation ever applied to this. inflation ever applied to this. >> Right.
Committee:
House Ways and Means
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Twenty Eight - Thursday, February 26
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And so I would like to express how my faith is impacting this bill.
- We don't want to impact... ...We don't want to impact the restaurant, the smoking and the restaurant
- And with inflation, absolutely, you should recover that.
- And with inflation, absolutely, you should recover that.
- Let it grow with inflation. Let it grow with population growth.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 028 Feb 11th, 2026
Colorado House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- you introduce about 30% extra in imaginary money, that has the effect, no kidding, of the 22.5% inflation
- The 22.5% inflation that devalued your wages by 22.5% and caused prices to soar.
- that everyone could be able to think for themselves and to think about how their future would be impacted
- CSU Founders Day celebrates the history and impact of our state's land-grant university system, have
- the history and impact of our state's<01:51:55.520><c> land</c><01:51:55.840><c> grant</c><01:51:56.239
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The revenue note from '23 has all the $350,000 and on impact and on all the different years, and the
- current is a zero impact.
- The reason for our ask is that, despite our best efforts and updates in a post-COVID inflation world,
- And so the reason we're asking for this exemption is, you know, with inflation, a lot of the funding
- uh a lot of the some of the inflation uh a lot of the some of the funding<00:39:53.839><c> and</c><00
Committee:
Senate Taxes
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, April 23, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Inflation.
- Inflation.
- Inflation.
- Inflation.
- The Biden inflation years.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- That means what causes rates to increase is inflation that impacts our costs, borrowing costs that change
- That means what causes rates to increase is inflation that impacts our costs, borrowing costs that change
- That means what causes rates to increase is inflation that impacts our costs, borrowing costs that change
- And we've also impacts of rising costs.
- So does that have a kind of backside impact to aim high in interim rates?
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Wed Mar 4, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- It's still an inflationary cost index, but not inflation inflation. More for water carrier.
- </c><01:25:46.360><c> Well,</c> of inflation or index rate. Yeah. Well, of inflation or index rate.
- </c><01:25:58.520><c> inflation.
- </c><01:25:59.040><c> More</c><01:25:59.200><c> for</c> but not inflation inflation.
- More for but not inflation inflation.
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Commerce
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on HB 1984 HD2, which would require government entities issuing building permits to create a self-certification process for certain behind-the-meter rooftop solar and energy storage systems, allowing approved applicants to proceed without waiting for standard permit review. The Public Utilities Commission and DLNR offered comments, and the Hawaii Solar Energy Association, Holoholo Energy, Photon Works Engineering, Malama Solar, RevoluSun, and others testified in strong support. Supporters said the bill would reduce permitting delays, lower costs, and help meet Hawaii’s renewable energy goals while still relying on licensed engineers, electricians, and county inspections for safety. Committee members asked about risk, existing county pilot programs, and whether self-certification had been used before; witnesses said the professional liability remains with licensed signers and that current automated review systems often flag minor issues that slow projects. The committee also noted 16 additional written testimonies in support.
The committee then took up HB 1593 HD1, which would require HHFDC-financed affordable rental housing projects to allow residents to own or keep common household pets. The Hawaiian Humane Society testified that the bill is a top priority because housing restrictions are a major reason pets are surrendered and because many unhoused residents with pets avoid housing that does not allow animals. In response to questions, the Humane Society said concerns about pet-related damage are overstated, suggested pet behavior screening as a safeguard, and said it would be willing to work on broader private-market pet-friendly housing policies. Members raised concerns about whether allowing pets in public housing could create problems for residents who later transition to the private market, and the witness said California has a similar law and no major negative effects had been identified.
Finally, the committee heard HB 2423 HD2, which would require that by January 1, 2028, diesel fuel sold in Hawaii for on-highway vehicles contain at least 5% biodiesel by volume. The Hawaii State Energy Office offered comments, and Hawaii Transportation Association and Pacific Biodiesel Technologies testified in support. Pacific Biodiesel argued the mandate would improve energy security, stabilize fuel prices amid global supply disruptions, and support local clean-fuel production. In response to questions, the company said its nameplate capacity is 5.5 million gallons per year and it has produced over 6 million gallons annually, but much of its output is tied up in standby generator contracts that can fluctuate. Witnesses said the mandate would provide a stable market signal and could support future investment in expanded local biodiesel production, including agricultural feedstock development and a possible second refinery. No votes or final actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And, of course, that certainly impacts funding, Madam Chair.
- We actually have a very big impact on primary care physicians.
- It's actually been immensely impactful.
- We would ask you to fund that enrollment growth and inflation.
- off of that impact on the economy.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Last session, the agency completed 66 impact statements.
- It is adjusted every year by inflation.
- We need to focus on prevention to make a real impact.
- Since 1999, inflation has risen in excess of 46%.
- So that is a significant impact.
Committee:
Senate Finance
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:29:29.840><c> in</c> and without understanding its impact in and without understanding its impact
- </c> for inflation for inflation and<03:23:58.479><c> pass</c><03:23:58.720><c> them</c><03:23:58.960
- So it's just an inflation adjuster.
- </c> everyone else will go up, impacting everyone else will go up, impacting businesses<03:31:37.600>
- </c> finan fiscal impact. finan fiscal impact.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Feb 4th, 2026
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Transcript Highlights:
- Medical professionals have raised growing alarm about the health impacts of recreational nitrous oxide
- of electronic textbooks, evaluating the impacts of limited consumer choice, ...electronic textbooks,
- evaluating the impacts of limited consumer choice and electronic textbook contracts with educational
- The impact is important.
- It's not something, though, that needs to be inflated beyond that.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure held a hearing on late-filed bills and home rule petitions, with testimony taken both in person and virtually. The chairs reviewed hearing logistics and testimony limits, then heard a series of bill presentations covering public health, alcohol licensing, professional licensure, consumer issues, and automotive warranty reimbursement. Committee members asked questions throughout, particularly on interstate licensure compacts and the structure of proposed regulatory changes.
Representative John Barrett testified in support of H 4907, which would regulate the sale of nitrous oxide to curb recreational misuse and protect young people, and members echoed concerns about its health risks. Southbridge officials Peg Dean and David Adams supported H 488, seeking an extension of district liquor licenses to match delayed downtown revitalization and business development. Leslie Ross and Keith Buckout testified on S 2636, a cosmetology licensure compact, with Buckout explaining that compacts improve mobility for workers and military families; Melissa Willett of the Defense State Liaison Office also supported the compact for the same reason. Representative Mindy Domb testified for H 559, proposing a commission to study the effects of electronic textbooks and automatic textbook billing on students and affordability.
George Cronin of MassPack supported H 4597, which would limit new alcohol retail licenses within 500 feet of another alcohol seller after 2026 to address oversaturation; he said the bill would not disturb existing licenses. Luke Van Horn testified for H 559 and also raised concerns about H 4719, describing the burden of costly course materials and access codes on students. Mike Capuccio and Ryan Williams supported H 4719, which would create HVAC construction supervisor licensing, arguing it would improve consumer protection, accountability, and clean-energy outcomes; no opposition was heard on that bill in the excerpt. On H 4019, the Massachusetts State Auto Dealers Association supported a change to warranty reimbursement rules, while the Alliance for Automotive Innovation and Subaru New England opposed it, warning it would raise costs and allow overpayment using aftermarket time guides. The committee concluded by reading the agenda items and then voted unanimously to adjourn.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee May 23rd, 2025
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- AB 349, Dixon, foster care infant supplement, due pass is amended to retain the inflation adjustment.
- pass as amended to increase instead of eliminate. caps and allow DFW to annually adjust the cap for inflation
- AB 342, Haney, hours of sales, do pass as amended to require the license fee be adjusted for inflation
- AB 374, Haney, hours of sales, do pass as amended to require the license fee be adjusted for inflation
- AB 1244 Wicks, transportation impact mitigation. Due pass out on an A roll call.
Committee:
House Appropriations
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation Jan 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- When it comes to cost and why housing is so expensive, there's obviously high impact fees and we have
- at a rate of double that of inflation since 2019.
- Offsite in Redding or Sola Impact in L.A., are examples of those smaller factories.
- Local impact: we've created 70 new direct jobs. We are a factory.
- There's also a local impact of second-chance employment.
Summary:
The Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation met to examine how industrialized construction, including modular, panelized, manufactured, and 3D-printed building methods, could help lower California’s housing costs and speed delivery. Chair Buffy Wicks opened by describing the committee’s purpose as a cross-cutting effort to address construction costs, drawing on visits to factories in Sweden, Idaho, and Indiana. Members from both the committee and invited participants broadly agreed that California’s housing crisis is driven not only by land use and permitting, but also by high construction costs, labor shortages, and a lack of scalable innovation.
Ben Metcalf of UC Berkeley’s Turner Center provided the main policy overview, saying California needs roughly 2.5 million additional homes by 2030 and that multifamily construction costs in the state can be far higher than in Texas or Colorado. He said factory-built housing can reduce hard costs and timelines under the right conditions, but barriers remain in financing, local code and design review, uncertain demand pipelines, and fragmented research and data. In response to committee questions, he discussed possible state actions such as pro-housing incentives, state-backed purchasing or subsidies, more standardized approvals, and better research infrastructure. Members also raised the need to involve labor and building trades in the process.
A panel of developers and builders then described projects and cost savings from factory-built and related methods. Caleb Rupp of Pacific Companies said modular construction can save about 20% on average and cited a project where modular delivery reduced the need for public subsidy by $18 million; he suggested incentives such as tax exemptions, state-owned sites, third-party inspections, and limits on local code variation. Lois Kim of Mutual Housing California described a pipeline of more than 660 units across six jurisdictions, saying a predictable factory pipeline can reduce construction time by about 40% and total development costs by at least 10%. Danny Haber of O’WOW said standardized design, componentized construction, and mass timber can cut costs substantially, while also criticizing outdated codes, utility hookup fees, and financing costs.
Donna Jamian of Emergent Construction described California’s first code-approved 3D concrete printing projects, including homes in Redding and work on a commercial building and fire-recovery projects in Altadena. She said current codes have not caught up to the technology and asked for participation in local self-certification programs. Committee members asked about the role of state incentives, code alignment, financing support, and how to build developer confidence after failures like Katerra. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational and ended with plans for further hearings and a forthcoming white paper with policy recommendations.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 May 5th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The governor originally proposed a 2% cap on inflation in this area.
- What we know is that they're going to impact consumers' bottom line.
- Big economic impact. They're important to all of us.
- This proposal will have deep and lasting impacts.
- As an indigenous person, I believe that what we do here impacts.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Is there a fiscal impact with this? Now, there's no fiscal impact.
- And if you do the inflation rate, instead of a fee from $1 to $20 instead of $20 dollars, it should be
- So, I think it's time that they need to raise their fees just because of inflation.
- So, it's a very simple bill, but boy, it has a lot of impact when you're in a court of law and trying
Committee:
Senate Public Safety
Keywords:
substance abuse, counseling, assessment fees, mental health, alcohol and drug programs, domestic violence, domestic abuse, assault and battery, assault, battery, strangulation, dangerous weapon, family or household member, intimate partner, pregnant woman, great bodily injury, batterers intervention program, batterers' intervention, anger management, victim safety
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Water Topics Overview Committee Mar 26th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Water Topics Overview Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- These differences are also impacted by three governance challenges.
- Since then, we're seeing 4% inflation.
- So the question is going to be: what's our impact?
- So question is going to be is what's our impact?
- The inflation, yeah, I'll probably agree that's a little bit of a shortfall.
Committee:
Joint Water Topics Overview Committee
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: DFL Caucus Members Discuss Work Ahead in 2025 Session - 02/10/25
Transcript Highlights:
- I really appreciate you centering us with a story about how folks are personally impacted by this chaos
- We're hearing all sorts of figures about what we could experience in terms of budget impact, especially
- We're hearing all sorts of figures about what we could experience in terms of budget impact, especially
- They were one of the reasons he got elected, because of the high egg prices and inflation.
- prices egg prices have been in inflation prices egg prices have been going<00:19:30.760><c> up</c><00
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Is there a fiscal impact with us? No, there's no fiscal impact.
- Is there a fiscal impact with us? No, there's no fiscal impact.
- And if you do the inflation rate, instead of a fee from $15 to $20, it should be $32.
- So I think it's time that they need to raise their fees just because of inflation.
- So it's a very simple bill, but boy, it has a lot of impact when you're in a court of law and trying
Committee:
Senate Public Safety
Summary:
The Public Safety Committee met and first laid over Senate Bill 1284 by Vice Chair Hamilton until the following week. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1192 by Senator Mann, which would raise the DUI assessment fee from $160 to $200 to help stabilize independent assessment providers; members asked about who pays the fee and whether there was a fiscal impact, and the bill passed 7-0. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1264 by Senator Gillespie, which expands the definition of great bodily injury to include concussions, prolonged pain, and injuries affecting more than 10% of the victim’s body, and adds coverage for offenses committed in the presence of a minor; after questions about the new standards and duplicate repealer language, it passed 7-0.
Senate Bill 1921 by Senator Murdock was heard next. It increases OSBI background check fees, including criminal history and fingerprint-based checks, with the added revenue intended for electronic infrastructure and staffing; members questioned whether the fees would be charged to requesting agencies as well as individuals, and the bill passed 7-0. The committee then heard Senate Bill 1810 by Senator Weaver, an Attorney General request bill that would allow human trafficking expert testimony in court and add human trafficking victims to the list of persons eligible for Attorney General Victim Service Unit services; Senator Weaver explained the need for specialized testimony and victim support, and the bill advanced 7-0.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Friday, November 21, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- When Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act and spent $1 trillion on subsidies, inflation hit a
- </c><00:09:12.399><c> When</c><00:09:12.640><c> Democrats</c> the rate of inflation.
- When Democrats the rate of inflation.
- </c><00:09:22.160><c> It's</c><00:09:22.480><c> clear</c> inflation hit a 40-year high.
- It's clear inflation hit a 40-year high.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-05-29 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- He worked on hundreds of bills and was instrumental in legislation that has left a lasting impact on
- He worked on hundreds of bills and was instrumental in legislation that has left a lasting impact on
- Why were those economic impacts not taken into account as we adjusted the BSA?
- And this is a budget that doesn’t even anticipate what some of those impacts might be.
- What happens to just the students impacted by this?
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Senator Donnell C. Childers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of Officer Antonio Richardson as law enforcement officer of the day. A quorum was announced, the journal was approved, and the Speaker said the chamber would take up 11 budget conference reports, with debate and final votes on each report. The first report considered was HB 7031E, the tax package, followed by HB 501E, the state budget appropriations bill.
On HB 7031E, Chair Duggan explained that the conference report included a range of tax reductions and tax-related changes, including sales tax holidays, property tax and homestead-related provisions, reductions in certain taxes and fees, and new exemptions or administrative clarifications. He said the package also added items such as sales tax relief for certain university construction projects, a tennis admissions exemption, and changes to agricultural property tax treatment, and that the amendment reduced state and local tax revenues by $272.2 million. Members questioned the bill about the child care tax credit reduction from three years to one, the homestead exemption provision for certain diplomats and foreign service personnel, the absence of gas tax relief and combined reporting, and the inclusion of firearm accessories and tennis tickets in sales tax holidays. After structured debate, the House adopted the conference report and passed HB 7031E by a vote of 88-11.
The House then began the conference report on HB 501E, the $114.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2026-2027, which was described as below the prior year’s spending level and leaving more than $14 billion in reserves. Subcommittee chairs outlined major allocations across education, higher education, IT, health care, transportation and economic development, justice, state administration, and agriculture/natural resources. Highlights included increased FEFP funding and veteran teacher raises, full funding for Bright Futures, major IT modernization projects, Medicaid and behavioral health funding, transportation and local infrastructure spending, correctional and law enforcement investments, fire station and emergency response funding, and large environmental and water-quality appropriations. Members asked detailed questions about school voucher fraud oversight, scholarship funding, teacher raises, preeminence funding, ADAP changes, SNAP data tools and error rates, Medicaid rate changes, prison wastewater monitoring, and other budget items, but the transcript ends during the budget questions before final action on HB 501E is shown.